vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2016-2384: Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:0817)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 27, 2016
Added
Aug 28, 2019
Modified
May 25, 2023

Description

Double free vulnerability in the snd_usbmidi_create function in sound/usb/midi.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving an invalid USB descriptor.

Solution

centos-upgrade-kernel
Title
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